Of course the ‘i’ does a big promotion for: England vs Germany. But we have to hand it them, they beat the red-top tabloids for best Wagatha headline: High Court own goalĪnd the ‘i’ seems as though it is getting just as saucy as the Star: Summer of love outdoors. We don’t like the BBC’s new favourite paper – the left-leaning ‘i’ which once again tops the online press line up over there at the Beeb. Disney’s gay dilemma – is pondered by the FT Weekend. Or as late-80s comedy double act Lee and Herring liked to say: “the moon on a stick”Ĭhasing rainbows. Leadership contender vows to ‘unlock’ home ownership for millions ( Express) – seems the centre-left light-weight neo-con candidate about to be foisted on us as PM by a cabal of left-liberal Tory MPs and compliant corporate press is promising us the earth. Several titles appear to throw in their lot – or for the left-leaners put their bets on Liz Truss: Truss heads for No 10 as Sunak’s tax U-turn fails ( ‘i’) Sunak suffers new blow ( Times) Truss plans Thatcherite shake-up of the Treasury ( Telegraph) – Thatcherite? More like Thatcher-lite. Wasn’t it PT Barnum who is supposed to have said something like: “Put on the show and they’ll come” – or was it: “There’s a sucker born every minute” ? Speaking of which: On the ball Lionesess ride a wave of euphoria ahead of Euro 2022 final ( FT) – that’ll be a wave of media euphoriaįrom the wave of media-driven supposed euphoria to the wave of campaign-driven dysphoria – I’m on a roll this morning: Tavistock gender identity clinic is closing: what happens next? Analysis: as NHS shuts London clinic for young people, new regional hubs are planned – but thousands remain on waiting lists… in the past decade alone, the number of referrals… went from 138 in 2010-11 to 2,383 in 2020-21. What with: Wagatha: the verdict ( Daily Mirror) – these charmers being a pair of media attention-seeking celeb try hard, clothes-horse, famous for no great achievement other than… let me think… their proximity to footballers It looks a lot like one of those familiar ladies days in the press.